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In OS X Lion DP4 presente la modalità “Restart to Safari”
13 Giu
In OS X Lion Developer Preview 4, alcuni sviluppatori provando la beta hanno notato la possibilità di riavviare il computer in modalità Safari. Una volta scelto questo tipo di riavvio, il Mac ripartirà e in pochi istanti mostrerà solo una finestra di Safari utile per navigare su internet. Questa funzione potrebbe, per esempio, essere un modo per consentire ad ospiti di navigare su internet senza dare loro accesso ai file.
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Instant Preview di Google in arrivo su safari per iOS
31 Gen
Sembra che Google stia testando una versione mobile della tecnologia che mostra un’anteprima dei risultati della query, la “Instant Previews,” in arrivo su Safari per iOS.
Niente di sconvolgente, probabilmente, ma si tratta senza dubbio di una gradita novità. Ogni volta che digiteremo del testo, in futuro, sotto ai suggerimenti compariranno istantaneamente i risultati della ricerca, che a loro volta potranno essere sfogliati col movimento del pollice come fossero fotografie o tab di Safari. Al momento la funzionalità risulta abilitata a macchia di leopardo: segno che a Mountain View stanno ancora limando e smussando il software.
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Apple ha rilasciato una nuova versione di Safari
18 Nov
Apple ha rilasciato un aggiornamento al proprio browser Safari. Questo aggiornamento contiene miglioramenti alla facilità d’uso, compatibilità, stabilità, accessibilità e sicurezza, tra cui:
- Risultati di “Il migliore” più precisi nel campo Indirizzi
- Risultati più precisi in Top Sites
- Risoluzione di un problema che poteva causare la sovrapposizione dei contenuti delle pagine web durante l’uso del plug-in Flash 10.1
- Blocco finestre a comparsa più affidabile
- Migliore stabilità durante l’inserimento di testo nei campi di ricerca e input testo dei siti www.netflix.com e www.facebook.com
- Migliore stabilità durante l’uso di estensioni che fanno un uso intenso di JavaScript
- Migliore stabilità durante l’uso di VoiceOver con Safari
L’aggiornamento a Safari è disponibile tramite il menù “Aggiornamento Software” e pesa circa 40 MB.
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7 Safari Extensions to Install Now
1 Ago
Extensions have now gone public with the newly released Safari 5.0.1. Here’s a list of seven extensions you should install right away. Also, be sure to read our previous list of 25 extensions worth checking out.
AdBlock
Firefox users should recognize this popular extension. This one’s an offshoot of AdBlock for Chrome, which itself is an offshoot of AdBlock Plus, the original Firefox extension. AdBlock does what its name implies: block ads. I installed it just to block that obnoxiously huge banner ad on YouTube’s homepage. If you’re not the type to ever click on ads anyway, then why not cut down on the visual (and sometimes audible) clutter?
Type-To-Navigate
Type-To-Navigate is a mouse-hater’s dream. It lets you navigate links by simply typing the name of the link. So say I wanted to view the About page of a blog, I’d just type “about” and Type-To-Navigate will highlight the link and display an attractive popup of what I’d written (“about”). The only places where this extension doesn’t work are in text fields and when the link is attached to an image. However, it should find any text link with no problems. Another neat thing you can do with it is to press certain shortcuts while the link you’re searching for is highlighted. You can type ⌘G to find next, ⌘C to copy the URL, and ⌘I to send it to Instapaper.
Invisible Status Bar
Another neat extension from the developer of Type-To-Navigate, Invisible Status Bar gives you a Google Chrome-like status bar that pops up when hovering over links, and even tells you how big a file is when you’re hovering over a download link.
MouseGestures
This feature was originally pioneered by Opera back in 2001, and it’s kind of amazing that it’s taken this long to get it into Safari (at least officially). If you’re unaware, mouse gestures are where you hold down a button on the mouse (normally the right or middle button) and move the mouse to perform a gesture. Gestures can do things like go back a page, or reload. MouseGestures only offers four gestures right now: up, down, left, and right. Assignable actions run the gamut from going back a page to closing the active tab. Unfortunately, there are no customizable gestures like in Opera yet.
WOT (Web Of Trust)
Another popular Firefox extension, WOT offers better security when searching the web by ranking pages based on their content, with other WOT users providing the rankings. The green WOT symbol means the site is safe, and the red means it’s unsafe, with several degrees of safety in between. The only annoying thing about it is that it pops up a little indicator in the top left of the window whenever you visit a new site, but fortunately, it doesn’t popup when you visit a site you’ve already visited.
Gmail Counter
For those who don’t use anything other than Gmail’s web-based interface, this extension is rather useful. It adds a new toolbar icon that shows how many unread messages are in your inbox. Clicking on the icon also takes you to your inbox, so you can get rid of your Gmail bookmark, if you have one.
Reload Button
This one was made by the venerable, and über-critical, John Siracusa, to address his annoyance with the location of Safari’s reload button since version 4. It adds a reload button to the toolbar that’s freely movable, unlike the default reload button. There isn’t much else to say about it, unless you like Safari’s default reload button, in which case, what’s wrong with you?
You could install most of these from the Extensions Gallery, but I’ve elected to link directly to the developers websites, as Apple doesn’t have individual pages for extensions yet.
Have you been playing around with Safari extensions? What are your favorites so far?
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Apple aggiorna Safari, un universo di estenzioni
29 Lug
Chi è solito utilizzare Firefox, già da diversi anni conosce il mondo delleestensioni. Si tratta di plugin che permettono al browser di compiere le più svariate funzioni: dai social network ai client Bittorent, dall’editing fotografico ai download manager. Sicuramente un mondo di infinite possibilità, che permettono di personalizzare il browser a seconda delle proprie esigenze.
Con l’introduzione di Safari 5.0.1, anche Apple ha deciso di avventurarsi seriamente in questo universo di extension, con un orientamento, però, che strizza l’occhio all’ormai vincente ambiente di App Store. Plugin aggiuntivi per il browser di Cupertino esistono già da tempo, la novità è l’introduzione di Safari Extensions Gallery: unadirectory aggiornata per sfogliare comodamente tutte le estensioni migliori pensate per il software di navigazione targato Mela.
Lo scorso giugno, con l’introduzione di Safari 5, Apple ha concesso l’opportunità gli sviluppatori di creare extention che incorporassero la potenza di HTML5 con CSS3 e JavaScript. I primi risultati non hanno affatto deluso le aspettative: MLB.com, The New York Times, Twitter ed eBay hanno già presentato le loro proposte, che si dimostrano altamente immersive e comode da usare.
Extensions Gallery è navigabile collegandosi all’apposita pagina pensata da Apple. Le applicazioni possono essere installate con un singolo click e non vi è la necessità, a differenza di alcune proposte concorrenti, di riavviare il browser: l’utilizzo sarà immediato e indolore.
Apple, infine, fornisce dei certificati per le estensioni in uso, garantendo quindi la stabilità e la sicurezza del software caricato da produttori terzi. Al momento, ovviamente, siamo ancora lontani dal raggiungere l’immenso database di plugin disponibili per Firefox, ma date le premesse Safari non tarderà a raggiungere simili livelli.
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Apple updates Safari, switches on Extensions site, patches Address Book bug
29 Lug
Apple today introduced Safari 5.0.1, the latest version of its browser which introduces the Safari Extensions Gallery. (Oh look, Google, Bling is among the highlighted extensions, there’s a big surprise!) The release also patches last week’s nasty Address Book bug.
(Which likely puts paid to the short career of Safariextensions.org).
Apple introduced extensions support in Safari 5 in June so developers could begin creating extensions with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards.
Safari Extensions Gallery lets users find the extensions they want, from toolbars that display live web feeds to sophisticated programmes that filter web content.
“Safari 5 has been a big hit, and user response to the innovative new Safari Reader has been fantastic,” said Brian Croll, Apple’s vice president of OS X Product Marketing. “We’re thrilled to see so many leading developers creating great extensions and think our users are going to love being able to customise Safari.”
The Safari Extensions Gallery is accessible from the Safari menu or at extensions.apple.com. Users can download and install extensions from the gallery with a single click, and there’s no need to restart the browser. Extensions can be automatically updated and are easily managed within Safari. Users can enable or disable individual extensions, or turn off all extensions with one click.
Safari Extensions are built with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards, and can have all the power and functionality of advanced web applications. Every Safari Extension is signed with a digital certificate from Apple to prevent tampering and to verify that updates to the extension are from the original developer. Safari Extensions are sandboxed, so they can’t access information on a user’s system or communicate with websites aside from those specified by the developer. For increased stability, Safari Extensions run solely in the browser.
Industry comments below (from the Apple PR):
“Millions of our customers already use Amazon Wish Lists to store items they want to buy for themselves or receive as gifts,” said Gianna Puerini, vice president of Worldwide Design and Community at Amazon.com. “With Safari 5, we were able to quickly build the Add to Amazon Wish List extension that lets customers add items from any website to their Amazon Wish List with the click of a button.”
“We’re excited to continue working closely with Apple to bring visually compelling Bing experiences to Safari,” said Jeff Henshaw, general manager of Bing User Experience. “The Bing Extension for Safari brings Bing search intelligence to everyday browsing with Safari. When a user selects text in Safari, Bing instantly recognises what they might need and pops up helpful, informative tips, from real time maps and driving directions to real time translations to direct web search results.”
“Using web standard technologies and Safari’s extension builder, we developed an MLB.com extension to give fans another way to consume up-to-the-moment baseball content, including live look-ins to games, right from the Safari toolbar,” said Noah Garden, executive vice president, Commerce and Sponsorship at MLB.com.
“Our extension for Safari is a great way for readers to get all of the latest breaking news and all the important stories, blogs and columns they want to see,” said Denise Warren, general manager, NYTimes.com at The New York Times Company. “While you browse other sites in Safari, our extension checks for updates and slides in new headlines and thumbnails, so you won’t miss a thing.”
“Creating our Twitter extension in Safari couldn’t have been easier,” said Jason Goldman, vice president of Product at Twitter. “By providing features like the ability to tweet about a page and view trending topics, we’ve created a simple way to deliver relevant, interesting content to people regardless of where they are on the web.”
Safari 5 is available for both Mac OS X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.com/uk/safari.
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Problema sicurezza in Safari
24 Lug
È proprio un’estate di fuoco questa, per Apple: dopo l’antennagate el’allarme lanciato da Secunia, ora arriva la scoperta di un notevole vulnerabilità individuata in Safari, in grado di esporre gli utenti al furto di dati sensibili.
Jeremiah Grossman ha scoperto come questo possa avvenire (sia in Safari 4, che nella più recente versione 5) sfruttando la funzione di auto completamento dei form presenti nelle pagine Internet: nome, indirizzo, email e altri dati personali, potrebbero essere acquisiti e utilizzati per inviare spam, ma anche per rendere più credibili eventuali email di phishing.
Come sappiamo, il riempimento automatico dei moduli, è la comoda funzione che permette di completare, in maniera del tutto automatica, alcuni dei moduli presenti nelle pagine Internet, accedendo alle nostre informazioni personali, memorizzate nella rubrica indirizzi: non è necessario l’intervento dell’utente, Safari è in grado di fare tutto da solo.
Il problema però, nasce esattamente qui: creando un’apposita pagina che contenga campi di inserimento invisibili, completati da codice Javascript (per simulare la digitazione dei tasti), è una questione di pochi attimi popolare il form e inviarlo all’hacker di sorta che avrà a disposizione tutte le nostre informazioni più importanti (è escluso, probabilmente per un bug, solo il numero di telefono).
Al momento, l’unica soluzione sembra essere quella di disabilitare l’auto completamento dei moduli, in attesa di un aggiornamento di sicurezza da parte di Apple, che risolva la questione.
Come si può vedere dall’immagine, per farlo, occorrerà accedere allepreferenze di Safari, scegliere la scheda Riempimento automatico e deselezionare l’opzione che permette di accedere alla rubrica indirizzi.
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Attention!!! Disable your Safari AutoFill immediately!!!!!
22 Lug
If you use Safari, disable your autofill imediately. Apple enables this by default. We’ll wait.
(Uncheck all)
Websites can now steal your Safari browser autofill information including Name, Address, Email, Credit Card etc. without a mention using a very simple exploit detailled by Jeremiah Grossman.
These fields are AutoFill’ed using data from the users personal record in the local operating system address book. Again it is important to emphasize this feature works even though a user never entered this data on any website. Also this behavior should not be confused with normal auto-complete data a Web browser may remember after its typed into a form.
All a malicious website would have to do to surreptitiously extract Address Book card data from Safari is dynamically create form text fields with the aforementioned names, probably invisibly, and then simulate A-Z keystroke events using JavaScript. When data is populated, that is AutoFill’ed, it can be accessed and sent to the attacker.
As shown in the proof-of-concept code (graciously hosted by Robert “RSnake” Hansen), the entire process takes mere seconds and represents a major breach in online privacy. This attack could be further leveraged in multistage attacks including email spam, (spear) phishing, stalking, and even blackmail if a user is de-anonymized while visiting objectionable online material.
If you want to see how it works, check out this page in Safari with your autofill on (note you could be giving up that informaton to that website and any others you go to with that on).
Very scary. Even more scary? This vulnerability has been known about for a year…and it could have been embedded into online advertising on an otherwise normal website. Older versions of IE (6 and 7) are also susceptible according to the Register.
Grossman informed Apple about the exploit over a month ago but hasn’t received a response.
I figured Apple might appreciate a vulnerability disclosure prior to public discussion, which I did on June 17, 2010 complete with technical detail. A gleeful auto-response came shortly after, to which I replied asking if Apple was already aware of the issue. I received no response after that, human or robot. I have no idea when or if Apple plans to fix the issue, or even if they are aware, but thankfully Safari users only need to disable AutoFill web forms to protect themselves.
As this is now officially in the wild, either switch off autofill or switch to another browser until it is fixed.
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